Re: RFC 110 (v2) counting matches

[email protected] (Bart Lateur)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.regex
Organization MediaMind
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:47:25 -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:

>        m/.../Count,Insensitive   (instead of m/.../ti)
>
>That would escape the problem that we are running out of letters and
>also the problem that the current letters are hard to remember.

Yes, but wouldn't this give us backward compatibility problems? For
example, code like

	$result = m/(.)/Insensitive, ord $1;


And, I don't really see the need for the comma.

        m/.../CountInsensitive   (instead of m/.../ti)

(Camel case strikes back!)

-- 
	Bart.
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